at the BMW site in Shenyang, China. In all three projects, Dürr’s role is to provide not only the equipment,
but also the upstream planning of the paint shop layout
and processes.
AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING
APPROVES SSPC PCI PROGRAM
The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) has
announced that effective February 11, 2008, the
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), the world’s 2nd
largest commercial shipping classification society, has
approved SSPC’s Protective Coatings Inspector (PCI)
program as equivalent to NACE Coating Inspector Level
2 and FROSIO Inspector Level III.
According to SSPC, this approval is a milestone for
the PCI program, which was launched by SSPC in 2007.
“It lends credibility to our program, for sure,” said Bill
Shoup, executive director of SSPC. “Our goal during
development of the program was to serve our members’
needs and ensure that it stacked up to existing programs on the market. This approval is an independent
validation of that and proof that we have met one of our
important benchmarks.”
“We have had plenty of positive feedback from PCI
students and the coatings industry at large, but to gain
such quick approval from ABS is really a powerful
endorsement of the program,” added Doni Riddle, president of SSPC and vice president and director, industrial and marine marketing, The Sherwin-Williams
Company.
The PCI program is an intensive one-week program
designed to thoroughly train individuals in the proper
methods of inspecting surface preparation and the
installation of industrial and marine protective coatings and lining systems on a wide variety of steel structures. It is the fourth inspector program offered by
SSPC and joins the Bridge Coatings Inspector (BCI)
program, Concrete Coatings Inspector (CCI) program,
and NAVSEA Basic Paint Inspector (NBPI) course in
SSPC’s comprehensive set of coatings inspector certification programs.
In order to achieve this status, the PCI program needed to meet the stringent criteria of Section 2.3 of IACS
Procedural Requirement No. 34 Rev. January 1, 2008.
Procedural Requirement (PR) 34 addresses “Application
of the IMO Performance Standard for Protective
Coatings (PSPC).” Section 2 focuses on the procedure
for assessment of coating inspectors’ qualifications, with
2.3 specifically covering equivalent qualifications.
In addition to ABS, SSPC training and professional development programs have been certified by other agencies such
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